National Haiku Writing Month has been founded by the well known haiku poet Michael Dylan Welch. The goal is to write at least one haiku a day. National Haiku Writing Month is in its 14th year. [1] I enjoy writing to the prompts on Facebook. Here are some interesting links: [2]. Our prompter this month is Debbie Guzzi, who has done so for the first time [3]. Thanks a lot for prompting, Debbie! I enjoyed your prompts very much.
of the flamingos
no comment needed
~ Feathers [4]
the rosy feathers
of the flamingos
it's in the brine
~ Feathers
no kids on the lake
~ Floats [5]
no wasps
on the fallen plums
to be or not a windfall
~ Windfall
the squirrels are busy
burying acorns
I trim the oaks
~ Acorn [6]
calling
the house whisperer
ivy and ghosts
~ Wisper
howl ∙ howl
the storm is passing
o starry night
~ Howl
the western wind
howls in the trees
the wolves keep quiet
~ Howl
rolling clouds
roaring thunder
ready for reading
~ Roar
at the sun eclipse
nature turns into
a roaring silence
~ Roar
equinox gives
more time to sun and fire
for an afterglow
~ Glow
no potato fire
burning this year
because of root voles
~ Burning
no potato fire
burning this year
due to root voles
~ Burning
the tits knock
on my terrace door
the birdfeeder is empty
~ Birdfeeder [7]
on a blanket
looking at peanut's linus
and woodstock's '''''''
~ Blanket
brittle scarecrows
time to move into the shed
there's hope for them
~ Brittle
kintsugi
for broken hearts
tears and a shoulder
~ Broken
sepia photograph
in a broken frame
they were young, once
~ Broken
all berries
turn into winter berries
in a rum pot
~ Winter Berries
with golden sickles
the druids are cutting
mistletoe
~ Mistletoe [8]
Links and Annotations:
[1] National Haiku Writing Month https://www.facebook.com/NaHaiWriMo
[2] „To help with haiku fundamentals, please have a look at "Becoming a Haiku Poet" at https://www.graceguts.com/essays/becoming-a-haiku-poet. Please review the "Haiku Checklist" at https://www.graceguts.com/essays/haiku-checklist. I also recommend to read: https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/why-no-5-7-5
[3] https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/meet-the-prompters/debbie-guzzi
[4] Veronica Marjon Van Bruggen wittily remarked: “one not-needed comment: shrimps?” In the haiku I wanted to avoid the scientific explanation (no comment needed), as there are so beautiful. Flamingos filter brine shrimps as food, which contain astaxanthin for instance, a carotenoid, which is also abundant in krill (I have written about krill on my blog [4a] ). And about ten years ago I've written about flamingos, too [4b]. Thanks! Shrimps evoke a culinary picture, but how about this alternative version? [4c]
[4a] https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/1428969590789818099?q=Krill
[4b] Flamingos at Laguna Chaxa in the Salar de Atacama
https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2016/11/flamingos-at-laguna-chaxa-in-salar-de.html
[4c] Now, you have to return to the above
[5] In a discussion with Rick Dadarrio we talked about floats that were made of glass (in the 1960ies and now more of plastic) and though sometime you found them on the beach of the North Sea, most people bought them. The floats and other items from the sea were fastened to a net and draped on a wall of the "basement party room".
[6] The day before yesterday a squirrel buried – not an acorn but a walnut – two meters next to me; they usually don't come this close.
[7] The birdfeeder belongs to my brother, but as he and my SIL are in Cologne every week for a couple of days and moreover the birdfeeder is on my site, the tits were somehow right to knock at my door.
[8] In case you don't believe me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_and_the_Golden_Sickle
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